As part of their goal to ensconce climate denial as the law of the United States, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) last week released a bogus report that argues that climate change “appears to be less damaging economically than commonly believed.”

This is the next step in their campaign to repeal the endangerment finding, and roll US climate action back to 2009, erasing more than a decade of our progress. The five cranks’ DOE report claims that global warming is good for you, actually! Because “the growing amount of CO2 in the atmosphere directly influences the earth system by promoting plant growth (global greening), thereby enhancing agricultural yields, and by neutralizing [ocean acidification].”

This is obviously false, and flies in the face of every peer reviewed scientific report on climate change from the last 10 years — whether from the United Nations, the European Union, or the federal government’s own most recent National Climate Assessment, which was released just two years ago.

Climate scientists, including those whose work was (mis)used and cited, are pissed. Michael Mann, a leading voice on climate change and director of the University of Pennsylvania’s climate program went so far as to say “There is nothing scientific about this report whatsoever.”

The report release kicks off a 32 day public review of this climate denying report. That gives us until about labor day to submit comments that are based on sound science, and legal precedent. Those comments can be used as evidence in future court cases and legal proceedings to overturn and roll back Trump’s policy of climate denial.

Use this page to submit a comment, which will be automatically delivered to the DOE's case officer in charge. We'll also bundle all the comments and submit them through the official regulations dot gov portal before the deadline.